The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-30
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Fox.hunting is the favorite pastime in
Montgomery Pa county just now
A GOV in Washington county, Ohio,
recently gave birth to three calves in
one day.
A young mulatto girl who barks fur
iously and constantly like a dog is a
curiosity of Starke, Fla.
1t is reported that Il being with a face
that is half man and half dog lives near
Oil City. He or it goes upon all tours.
Isaac Holmes of Tyler county, West
Virginia, recently sold a lot of railroad
ties which were cut and hewn forty
years ago.
St. Peters parish in Morristown, N. j.,
is to have n new church which will cost
$4,000 at the least. Its style will be
fourteenth-century architecture.
Floyd Tuft, a young giant of Wcstville.
VT, is 8 years old and weighs l25
pounds. He is as strong as an on, and
can easily shoulder two bushels of corn.
The famous Hardee grove in the Rock
ledge (Fla,l hammock has produced an
orange that measures 10! inches in cir
conference and weighs two pounds and
two ounces
A few DAYS ago q sister of DR.. James
Craig of Jersey City died as a result of a
painful surgical operation. Mrs. Craig,
the doctors wife, shocked at the an
nouncement of the death, died twenty
five minutes later Of heart disease.
Two centenarians have died recently.
One was Clayton Sutherland, who was
born in Virginia in ISL, and has lived
for seventy years near Benton Ky. The
other was Barney Findley of Spring
Valley; o., who was said to by oyer TO-
years old.
A Georgia man has an old hen tina
since she was Matched until recently was
decidedly white. Not long ago she be
gan moulting, and every white feather
that dropped out was replaced by a black
one, and now biddy is clad in sombel
black from bill to tail.
Tie church of the Pilgrims in Brook.
lyn backs up the American board o
commissioners for foreign missions
which has just elected its pastor, DR.
Storrs, president, by increasing its an
nual CONTINUATION by $4,000, with sever
al heavy givers to here from.
Says the walla Walla Nv. IT, Journal
Daniel Lyons has exhibited at thii
Office to day petrilied pieces of an In
dams ribs, takeu from a skeleton fount
lying partly exposed in the sand OF
Snake river, opposite Lyons ferry. Tn
material is Individually stone"
Gen. Booth Of the Salvation Army hai
decided to send squads of his soldiers t,
Zululand and SoItll America. Some o
his forces have already reached Jeru
salem, and the streets of the holy cit,
resound with tlieir "amens" and tn,
jingle of their tambourines.
Counterfeit silver dollars made of cast
iron, heavily plated with silver, are il
circulation in the vicinity of Crestor
Iowa. They are such a perfect snbsti
tute that ever acid will not affect them
and they can only be detected by til
ring. The dates they bear are mostl,
1884.
In his autobiography the Rev. Phil
Hoffman, a German %clergymen who die;
near Cassel not long ago, claims that III
discovered the art of photography in 1888
or six years before Daguerre's discovery
but was unable to apply or utilize j
owing to his lack of knowledge o
chemistry.
William Halpin was convicted in
Jersey City last Friday of illegal voting.
He said that he had supposed that he
had been born in this country till some
told him that Ireland was his birth,
place. Under the impression that
naturalization was not necessary he had
been registered as n citizen aud voted.